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Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…
Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of a self-denying heart, delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews II, 25, 26 / by Jeremiah Burroughs.
London: printed by John Field, 1650
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly, Learn we hence to judge wisely of the poor, of the afflicted, and persecuted. Psalm 41. 1. Far be it from us to think they are forsaken of God: let us not be offended at Religion, because troubles follow the profession of it; the blessing that comes by profession of the truth, consists not in such a peace as frees from trouble, but in giving peace and rest 1to the soul in the middest of troubles. Luther hath an excellent speech for this in one of his Epistles ad Tonitorem.
- 1Pacem tu quaeris & effect as, led praeposterè, qui• quomodo mundus dat tu quaeris, non quomodo Christus Deus pacem suam possu it in medium nullus pacis, id est omnium tentationū sicut dicit, Dominare in medimedio inimicorū tuorum.Pacem tu quaeris & effect as, led praeposterè, qui• quomodo mundus dat tu quaeris, non quomodo Christus Deus pacem suam possu it in medi um nullus pacis, id est omnium tentationū sicut dicit, Dominare in medimedio inimicorū tuorum.
You seek and affect peace, but preposterously, such as the worlds peace, not Christs, who gives peace in the middest of troubles; as he saith, Rule thou in the middest of thine Enemies. Now the cause of the Church calls for a wise judging: How many carnal people are ready to think that Popery is rather the truth, and that the Religion of Protestants is not right, because God hath of late years so grievously afflicted his Church? What, would God suffer his own people (say they) his own truth thus to be beaten down? As they formerly said of Christ, Let him save him, seeing he delighted in him, so ⟨p. 64⟩if God delighted in this way, surely he would have saved it, he would not have suffered opposition so far to have prevailed against the professors of it. It is no argument that Christ is not in the ship, because tempests and storms arise. It is no argument that our cause is not Gods, that Christ is not with us, because of our afflictions, it may be we have not awakened him by our prayers, we are not yet fit to enjoy the sweetness of a calm.